741: With reference to land reforms in independent India, which one of the following statements is correct?

(a) The ceiling laws were aimed at family holdings and not individual holdings.

(b) The major aim of land reforms was providing agricultural land to all the landless.

(c) It resulted in cultivation of cash crops as a predominant form of cultivation.

(d) Land reforms permitted no exemptions to the ceiling limits.
742: Assertion (A) : In India, every state has a High Court in its territory.

Reason (R) : The Constitution of India provides for a High Court in each state.

(a) Both A and R are individually true and R is the correct explanation of A

(b) Both A and R are individually true but R is not the correct explanation of A

(c) A is true but R is false

(d) A is false but R is true
743: In a wooden box there are 3 red and 4 black balls. If two balls are taken out Simultaneously (without looking at them), then the probability of both the balls being red is

(a) Zero

(b) 1/7

(c) 2/7

(d) 3/7
744: Consider the following statements:

1. In the world, the tropical deserts occur along the western margins of continents within the trade wind belt.

2. In India, the East Himalayan region gets high rainfall from north-east winds.

Which of the statements given above is/are correct?

(a) 1 only
(b) 2 only
(c) Both 1 and 2
(d) Neither 1 nor 2
745: English men are more efficient partly by upbringing, partly by race and partly by education. Who said this?

(a) Rippon

(b) Lord Curzon

(c) Minto

(d) Dufferin